On 20th-22nd of April, 2026, HAL4SDV partner Matthias Stammler from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) participated in the DATE 2026 conference, representing the joint collaboration between KIT, UNIMORE, and FZI within the HAL4SDV project.

The HAL4SDV project aims to advance European solutions in software-defined vehicles by introducing a hardware abstraction layer positioned between executed software and execution units. The proposed hardware abstraction layer includes safety-critical scheduling and platform deployment of software tasks, and is motivated by the requirement for abstracted hardware with unified interfaces in centralized automotive architectures.

At the conference, Matthias presented a correct-by-construction workflow which is developed by academic partners to schedule and deploy periodic software tasks onto diverse execution units. The workflow facilitates the execution of the same task stack on multiple unit architectures and consists of a task model and scheduling algorithm, which is followed by platform deployment for diverse hardware units, ensuring safe execution. In this multi-partner project, a bandwidth regulation unit for hardware accelerators and a RISC-V-based multicore system with tightly coupled memories are used as target platforms.

A RoboRacer driving stack is chosen for evaluation, showing the viability of our workflow to schedule autonomous driving functions. To show generalization capability, synthetic task sets are used to validate our deployment workflow. This collaboration focuses on a deployment workflow that takes a set of periodic tasks and transforms them into a time-triggered schedule. These task sets are then automatically deployed onto the execution platform. For this work, a RISC-V–based multi-core platform was used, featuring a dedicated management core from FZI, along with a platform from UNIMORE that includes a bandwidth monitor and regulator.